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Lacey's Paper Round
News As this Paper Round hits the Net, the AOL Netscape marriage bans are just being read. That UK tech stocks may still be worth a punt is the surprise of the week -- surprising when you consider that the tip comes from the FT.
[November 24, 1998, 10:00]
Lacey's Paper Round
News Fun stuff - and an apology for the non-delivery of Paper Round last week. The IT press has had its head turned once again by another set of extraordinary price rises in Internet stocks. The inexorable rise continues to defy gravity - but countless...
[July 21, 1998, 11:09]
Lacey's Paper Round: Best Of 1998
News Since ZDNet launched Paper Round in May 1998 we have published over two hundred snippets from the IT press. The Lacey's Paper Round medals for best IT coverage of the year go to: Whittling them down to the Top Ten of the year was not easy.
[December 29, 1998, 5:41]
Lacey's Paper Round
News I have an exclusive ZDNet pen to send out for every item published in Lacey's Paper Round. Crazy stockmarket valuations of internet companies makes the headlines again this week with the FT warning that the "crash will come".
[December 21, 1998, 0:22]
Lacey's Paper Round
News Fun stuff - and an apology for the non-delivery of Paper Round last week. The IT press has had its head turned once again by another set of extraordinary price rises in Internet stocks. The inexorable rise continues to defy gravity - but countless...
[July 22, 1998, 11:10]
Lacey's Paper Round
News I have an exclusive ZDNet pen to send out for every item published in Lacey's Paper Round. As we begin a two week countdown to the launch of the euro, the IT press has turned its attention to mulling over industry's state of preparedness.
[December 14, 1998, 10:24]
Lacey's Paper Round
News An exclusive ZDNet pen for every submission published in Lacey's Paper Round. More evidence of the IT industry weathering the recession emerged this week with the Wall Street Journal reporting surging European PC sales.
[November 10, 1998, 12:55]
Lacey's Paper Round
News Paper Round selects one mention, from The Independent which reports that the sleek design for iMAc is the work of British designer Jonathan Ive. At last something other than the Internet or e-commerce has captured the imagination of the IT press.
[September 7, 1998, 15:30]
Lacey's Paper Round
News If you see something you think is good, bad, mad, or just plain daft, email eugene_lacey@zdnet.com and we'll include it in next week's Paper Round. No, seriously, we wouldn't deny you the joys of your daily paper.
[June 1, 1998, 11:23]
Lacey's Paper Round
News There is only one story this week - the AOL/Netscape deal and its implications. The heavyweights get their teeth into this one with The Economist and Business Week both featuring it on the front page.
[November 30, 1998, 10:31]
Lacey's Paper Round
News Just occasionally the papers make you smile and renew your faith in humankind. The Evening Standard's report on the richest man in the world, Bill Gates, being gazumped in his attempt to buy Cliveden, former home of the Astor family, is one such item.
[June 29, 1998, 14:26]
Lacey's Paper Round
News Maybe it's the feel good effect created by all the clotted cream and fudge consumed on my Cornish holiday, but I seem to have noticed a lot of good news this week. Intel, for example, says that PC sales are recovering after a very tough year, SAP's...
[September 15, 1998, 7:29]
Lacey's Paper Round
News The whiff of big money is once again dominating IT press coverage this week. The whiff of money in selling IT infrastructure for big business in particular, with the Unix Vs NT struggle coming to the surface again.
[September 23, 1998, 11:11]
Lacey's Paper Round
News This week it is Lexmark who announce strong profits, joining Apple, IBM, and Intel in the slump-beating club. Eyebrow raiser of the week goes to The Economist, which reports on the US health-care industry and finds that it spends a staggeringly low...
[October 26, 1998, 11:06]
Lacey's Paper Round
News Paul Allen - co-founder of Microsoft - has just given Oxford University three hundred grand to launch an online post graduate degree course, an American company has raised $52 million to make spherical processors, and a Netscape founder is...
[July 27, 1998, 8:59]
Lacey's Paper Round
News The real news has been elsewhere, in outer space, Europe, and Reading to be precise. Eh? Let me explain. A space-based ISP is about to blast off, Sony will launch PCs in Europe, and wait for it - Reading is the hottest IT hot spot in Europe.
[June 8, 1998, 14:35]
Lacey's Paper Round
News The IT press likes nothing more than chewing over the bones of mega-mergers and discussing how this will shape the data-converged landscape of the next century. BT's alliance with AT&T and battle lines being drawn in interactive TV provided the...
[August 3, 1998, 9:12]
Lacey's Paper Round
News Silicon Valley continues to batton down the hatches for stormy market conditions, as the London Evening Standard reports on falling house prices in Palo Alto, whilst the Wall Street Journal warns against blaming all market woes on the Asian...
[August 10, 1998, 9:33]
Lacey's Paper Round
News The Las Vegas locals are not looking forward to Comdex, according to Business Week. The music industry has bigger problems to worry about than piracy over the Net, Psion is a major threat to Microsoft (don't laugh, this was in The Indepedent) and...
[November 3, 1998, 16:20]
